Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding, /dev/fd0, and Gloria Zhao to discuss Newsletter #333.

News

Vulnerability allowing theft from LN channels with miner assistance (1:11)
Deanonymization vulnerability affecting Wasabi and related software (12:00)
Insights into channel depletion (18:12)
Poll of opinions about covenant proposals (31:14)
Incentive-based pseudo-covenants (41:49)
Bitcoin Core developer meeting summaries (46:45)

Bitcoin Core PR Review Club

Changes to services and client software

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

How long does Bitcoin Core store forked chains? (1:03:51)
What is the point of solo mining pools? (1:05:02)
Is there a point to using P2TR over P2WSH if I only want to use the script path? (1:11:17)

Releases and release candidates

Core Lightning 24.11 (1:13:23)
BTCPay Server 2.0.4 (1:16:59)
LND 0.18.4-beta.rc2 (1:17:23)
Bitcoin Core 28.1RC1 (1:17:44)
BDK 1.0.0-beta.6 (1:18:36)

Notable code and documentation changes

Bitcoin Core #31096 (1:18:58)
Bitcoin Core #31175 (1:19:51)
Bitcoin Core #31112 (1:21:37)
LDK #3446 (1:22:56)
Rust Bitcoin #3682 (1:26:13)
BTCPay Server #5743 (1:27:17)
BDK #1756 (1:30:23)
BIPs #1535 (1:31:12)
BOLTs #1180 (1:32:33)

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